Static and Vibrational Analysis of Partially Composite Beams Using the Weak-Form Quadrature Element Method

Table 10

Relative percentage error of maximum slip of two-span beam.

		𝛼𝐿
		1	5	10	20	30	40
QEM	4Q3.32DOF	0.0494	4.8837	7.2108	4.6493	2.2988	1.1436
	4Q5.56DOF	0.0000	0.0152	0.1866	1.1148	3.6197	5.5888
	4Q8.92DOF	0.0000	0.0001	0.0076	0.2123	0.8994	1.8320
FEM	8F8.36DOF	0.0221	2.3294	8.7591	40.8025	77.7317	106.2524
	16F8.68DOF	0.0056	1.0457	2.9914	12.0138	25.1913	40.8953
	8F10.52DOF	0.0005	0.2944	0.8637	6.1695	11.1424	14.2586
	16F10.100DOF	0.0000	0.0191	0.0071	0.0462	0.8402	6.0337
	4F16.52DOF	0.0000	0.0328	0.3451	0.8392	4.0030	7.8597
	8F16.100DOF	0.0000	0.0022	0.0339	0.3641	1.4248	2.5285